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  1. J

    Versus in HD

    Detroit @ Pittsburgh is showing on my grid for Channel 95 tomorrow (Saturday) night.
  2. J

    NBC HD is sooooo bad that.......

    I was watching the SEA vs. CHI on NBC last night via an OTA antenna and the HD quality was awful. The problem had nothing to do with D*. You can put this quality issue 100% on the shoulders of NBC.
  3. J

    AT9 vs Superdish

    I have been waiting to see an AT9 mounted on a house but haven't found one. I did see a Superdish however. Are they about the same size?
  4. J

    Pennsylvania Cable TV Deregulation Plan Introduced

    http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06158/696273-85.stm
  5. J

    HR10-250 question

    I just bought one and it asks during setup if you want satellite and OTA or OTA only.
  6. J

    HDMI connection

    You should all save your money and go to monoprice.com High quality cables at very good prices.
  7. J

    Another FiOS TV Review

    That is huge. TiVo has always worked this way. Whoever designed the the SA-8300HD should look at either of these examples as the proper way to design a DVR.
  8. J

    Question re: Limited OTA success and the HR10-250

    I have used the same antenna in the same position for each receiver. My new Sony TV had the best performance. I don't know enough about it to explain why. The other two were made by the same mfg. Perhaps Samsung and Sony have different designs??
  9. J

    Question re: Limited OTA success and the HR10-250

    I have tried three different HD OTA receivers had mixed results. I have tried a Samsung SIR-TS160, a standalone Samsung HD box, and the tuner built in to my Sony 42A10. In my frustration, I even signed up for a promotion with Adelphia to get my local HD and compare their service to D*. I...
  10. J

    DirecTV Announces Next 24 Markets to Receive HD Locals!

    You will not be able to use the HD-Tivo to watch your HD locals off of the satellite due to the Mpeg4 compression. Yes, you need the dish to pick up the locals from D*. You should keep the OTA Antenna if you sill want to use your HD-Tivo on your primary TV
  11. J

    Free DVR

    I received a RCA DVR40 yesterday and I must say that I am quite happy. In addition to this new box, I have 2 DSR6000's (series 1 - v 3.1.1c). The RCA came with v3.1.1e. I downloaded 6.2 and restarted. This box is significantly faster than the Series 1. I realize that this not as advanced of...
  12. J

    Free DVR

    I ordered the free DVR last Friday. I now have an add'l receiver on the D* website. It shows as "livingRoom: HNS" I did not put this there so I must be getting a Hughes DTiVo.
  13. J

    R15 or Directivo

    It's no contest. Get the TiVo while you still can.
  14. J

    DirecTV's R-15 DVRs run into snags

    Sounds like he realizes that they have an inferior product. People will love it as long as they haven't actually seen the "real deal" - TiVo.
  15. J

    Additional MPEG4 / Detroit Info

    These are the specs that are listed on a website selling the dish... It's big. The arm extends almost 2ft from the dish! • To be used to pick up high definition local channel programming from DIRECTV • Four outputs carrying satellite signal from all Five satellites in the sky • Heavy...
  16. J

    Spaceway 2 Launch thread - It's up!

    LonghornXP, When you refer to the "listed markets for HD locals", do you mean the top 25 DMA's?